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Of perfect, fair, and good: Attentive Athens caught the found, And all her luft'ning fons around

In awful filence itood.

Reclaim'd, her wild licentious youth
Confefs'd the potent voice of truth,
And felt its just controul :
The pallions ceas'd their loud alarms,
And virtue's foft perfuafive charms
O'er all their fenfes ftole.

Thy breath infpires the po.t's fong,
The patriot's free unbiais'd tongue,
The hero's gen'rous strife:
Thine are retirement's filent joys,
And all the fweet endearing tics
Of ftill, domeftic life.

No more to fabled names confin'd,
To thee, fupreme, all-perfect mind,
My thoughts direct their fight:
Wifdom's thy gift, and all her force
From thee deriv'd, unchanging fource
Of intellectual light!

O fend her fure, her fteady ray
To regulate my doubtful way,

Taro life's perplexing road;
The mifts of error to controul!
And thro' its gloom direct my foul
To happiness and good!
Beneath her clear difcerning eye
The vifionary fhadows fly

Of folly's painted fhow:
She fees, thro' ev'ry fair difquife,
That all but Virtue's folid joys
Is vanity and woe.

53. Deity. BOYSE.

Unde nil majus generatur Ipfo,
Nec viget quidquam fimile aut fecundum. HOR.
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ROM carth's low prospects and deceitful aims,
From wealth's allurements, and ambition's
dreams,

The lover's raptures, and the hero's views,
All the falfe joys miftaken man purfues;
The fchemes of science, the delights of wine,
Or the more pleafing follies of the Nine!
Recal, fond Bard, thy long-enchanted fight,
Deluded with the vifionary light!
A nobler theme demands thy facred fong,
A theme beyond or man's or angel's tongue!
But oh, alas! unhallow'd and profane,
How fhalt thou dare to raise the heav'nly ftrain?
Do thou, who from the altar's living fire
Ifaiah's tuneful lips didit once infpire,
Come to my aid, celeftial Wifdom, come;
From my dark mind difpel the doubtful gloom :
My pathons ftill, my purer breaft inflame,
To fing that God from whom existence came;
Till heav'n and nature in the concert join,
And own the Author of their birth divine.

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From what Almighty Caufe, what myftic fprings
Shall we derive the origin of things?
Sing, heav'nly Guide whofe ail-cificient light
Drew dawning planets from the womb of night!
Since reafon, by thy facred dictates taught,
Adores a pow'r beyond the reach of thought.

First Cause of caules! Sire fupreme of birth Sole light of heav'n! acknowledg'd life of earth! Whofe Word from nothing call'd this beauteous whole,

This wide expanded All from pole to pole!
Who fhall preferibe the boundary to Thee,
Or fix the era of eternity?

Should we, deceiv'd by error's feeptic glafs, Admit the thought abfurd-that Nothing was! Thence would this wild, this falfe conclufion flow,

That Nothing rais'd this beauteous All below!
When from difclofing darkness fplendor breaks,
Affociate atoms move, and matter fpeaks,
When non-existence burfis its clofe difguife,
How blind are mortals-not to own the skies!
If one vaft void eternal held its place,
Whence started time? or whence expanded space?
What gave the flumb'ring mafs to feel a change?
Or bid confenting worlds harmonious range?
Could nothing link the univerfal chain?
No, tis impoffible, abfurd, and vain!
Here reafon its eternal Author finds,
The whole who regulates, unites, and binds,
Enlivens matter, and produces minds!
Inactive Chaos fleeps in dull repofe,

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Nor knowledge thence, nor free volition, flows!
A nobler fource thofe pow'rs ethereal fhow,
By which we think, defign, reflect, and know;
These from a cause superior date their rise,
"Abfract in effence from material ties."
An origin immortal, as fupreme,
From whofe pure day, celeftial rays! they came:
In whom all poffible perfections thine,
Eternal, felf-exiftent, and divine!

From this great fpring of uncreated might!
This all-refplendent orb of vital light;
Whence all created beings take their rife,
Which beautify the carth, or paint the skies!
Profufely wide the boundlefs bieffings flow,
Which heav'n enrich, and gladden worlds below!.
Which are no less, when properly detìn'd,
Than emanations of th' Eternal Mind
Hence triumphs truth beyond objection clear
(Let unbelief attend and fhrink with fear)
That what for ever was-muft furely be
Beyond commencement, and from period free;
Drawn from himself his native excellence,
His date eternal, and his fpace immenfe!
And all of whom that man can comprehend,
Is, that he ne'er begun, nor e'er fhall end.

In him from whom existence boundlets flows, Let humble faith its facred truft repofe: Affur'd, on his eternity depend, "Eternal Father! and eternal Friend!" Within that myftic circle safety seck, No time can leffen, and no force can break; And, loft in adoration, breathe his praise, High Rock of ages, ancient Sire of days!

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II. UNITY.

Thus recogniz'd, the spring of life and thought! Eternal, felf-deriv'd, and unbegot! Approach, celeftial Muse, th' empyreal throne, And awfully adore th' exalted One! In nature pure, in place fupremely free, And happy in effential unity!

Bless'd in himself, had from his forming hand No creatures fprung to hail his wide command; Blefs'd, had the facred fountain ne'er run o'er, A boundless fea of blifs that knows no fhore!

Nor fenfe can two prime origins conceive,
Nor reafon two eternal Gods believe!
Could the wild Manichæan own that guide,
The good would triumph, and the ill fubfide!
Again would vanquish'd Arimanius bleed,
And darkness from prevailing light recede!
In diff'rent individuals we find
An evident disparity of mind;

Hence ductile thought a thousand changes gains,
And actions vary as the will ordains;
But fhould two Beings, equally fupreme,
Divided pow'r and parted empire claim;
How foon would univerfal order cease!
How foon would difcord harmony displace!
Eternal schemes maintain eternal fight,
Nor yield, fupported by eternal might;
Where each would uncontrol'd his aim purfue,
The links diffever, or the chain renew!
Matter from motion crofs impreffions take,
As ferv'd each pow'r his rival's pow'r to break,
While neutral Chaos, from his deep recefs,
Would view the never-ending ftrife increase,
And blefs the conteft that fecur'd his peace!
While new creations would oppofing rife,
And elemental war deform the skies!
Around wild uproar and confufion hurl'd,
Eclipfe the heav'ns, and waste the ruin'd world.
Two independent caufes to admit,
Deftroys religion, and debafes wit;
The firft by fuch an anarchy undone,
The laft acknowledges its fource but one.
As from the main the mountain rills are drawn,
That wind irriguous thro' the flow'ry lawn;
So, mindful of their fpring, one courfe they keep,
Exploring, till they find their native deep!

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Exalted Pow'r invifible, fupreme, Thou fov'reign, fole unutterable Name! As round thy throne thy flaming feraphs ftand, And touch the golden lyre with trembling hand; Too weak thy pure effulgence to behold, With their rich plumes their dazzled cyes infold; Transported with the ardors of thy praife, The holy holy! holy! anthem raite! To them refponfive, let creation fing, Thce, indivifible eternal King!

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Incapable of paffions, impulfe, fear,
In good pre-eminent, in truth fevere:
Unmix'd his nature, and fublim'd his pow'rs
From all the greís allay that tempers ours;
In whose clear eye the bright angelic train
Appear fuffus'd with imperfection's ftain!
Impervious to the man's or feraph's eye,
Beyond the ken of each exalted high;
Him would in vain material femblance feign,
Or figur'd fhrines the boundless God contain;
Object of faith!-he fhuns the view of fenfe,
Loft in the blaze of fightless excellence!
Moft perfect, moft intelligent, most wise,
In whom the fanctity of purenefs lies;
In whose adjusting mind the whole is wrought,
Whofe form is fpirit! and whofe effence thought!
Are truths infcrib'd by Wisdom's brightest ray,
In characters that gild the face of day!

Reafon confefs'd (howe'er we may dispute),
Fix'd boundary! difcovers man from brute;
But dim to us, exerts its fainter ray,
Deprefs'd in matter, and allied to clay !
In forms fuperior kindles lefs confin'd,
Whofe drets is æther, and whofe fubftance mind;
Yet all from Him, fupreme of Caufes, flow,
To Him their pow'rs and their existence owe;
From the bright cherub of the nobleft birth,
To the poor reafoning glow-worm plac'd on earth;
From matter then to fpirit ftill afcend,
Thro' fpirit ftill refining, higher tend;
Purfue, on knowledge bent, the pathlefs road,
Pierce thro' infinitude in queft of God!
Still from thy fearch, the centre ftill fhall fly,
Approaching ftill-thou never fhalt come nigh!
So its bright orb th' afpiring flame would join,
But the vaft diftance mocks the fond defign.

If He, Almighty! whofe decree is fate,
Could, to difplay his pow'r, fubvert his state;
Bid from his plaftic hand a greater rife,
Produce a mafter! and refign his skies
Impart his incommunicable flame,
The myftic number of th' Eternal Name;
Then might revolting reafon's feeble ray,
Afpire to question God's all-perfect day!
Vain task! the clay in the directing hand
The reafon of its form might fo demand,
As man prefume to question his difpofe,
From whom the pow'r he thus abufes flows.

Here point, fair Mufe! the worship God re

quires,

The foul inflam'd with chafte and holy fires!
Where love celeftial warms the happy breaft,
And from fincerity the thought's exprefs'd;
Where genuine piety and truth refin'd,
Re-confecrate the temple of the mind;
With grateful flames the living altars glow,
And God defcends to vifit man below!
IV. OMNIPRESENCE.

Thro' the unmeasurable tracts of space,
Go, Mufe divine! and prefent Godhead trace!
See where by place, uncircumfcrib'd as time,
He reigns extended, and he fhines fublime!
Shouldst thou above the heav'n of heav'ns af-
cend,

Couldft thou below the depth of depths defcend;

Could

Could thy fond flight beyond the starry sphere,
The radiant morning's lucid pinions bear!
There should his brighter prefence thine confefs'd,
There his almighty arm thy course arrest!
Couldst thou the thickeft veil of night affume,
Or think to hide thee in the central gloom!
Yet there, all patent to his piercing fight,
Darkness itself would kindle into light:
Not the black manfions of the filent grave,
Nor darker hell from her perception fave;
What pow'r, alas! thy footsteps can convey
Beyond the reach of omniprefent day?

In his wide grafp, and comprehenfive eye,
Immediate, worlds on worlds unnumber'd lie:
Syftems inclos'd in his perception roll,
Whofe all-informing mind directs the whole :
Lode'd in his grafp, their certain ways they know;
Plac'd in that fight from whence can nothing go.
On earth his footftool fix'd, in heav'n his feat;
Enthron'd he dictates, and his word is fate.

Nor want his fhining images below,

In ftreams that murmur, or in winds that blow;
His fpirit broods along the boundless flood,
Smiles in the plain, and whispers in the wood;
Warms in the genial fun's enliv'ning ray,
Breathes in the air, and beautifies the day!
Should man his great immenfity deny,
Man might as well ufurp the vacant sky:
For were he limited in date, or view,
Thence were his attributes imperfect too;
His knowledge, pow'r, his goodness all confin'd,
And loft th' idea of a ruling Mind!
Feeble the truft, and comfortless the fenfe,
Of a defective partial Providence!
Boldly might then his arm injuftice brave,
Or innocence in vain his mercy crave;
Dejected virtue lift its hopelef's eye;
And heavy forrow vent the heartless figh!
An abfent God no abler to defend,
Protect, or punish, than an absent friend;
Diftant alike our wants or griefs to know,
To cafe the anguish, or prevent the blow!
If he, fupreme Director, were not near,
Vain were our hope, and empty were our fear;
Unpunish'd vice would o'er the world prevail,
And unrewarded virtue toil-to fail!
The moral world a fecond chaos lie,
And nature ficken to the thoughtful eye!

Even the weak embryo, ere to life it breaks, From his high pow'r its flender texture takes; While in his book the various parts inroll'd, Increasing, own cternal Wisdom's mould.

Nor views he only the material whole, But pierces thought, and penetrates the foul! Ere from the lips the vocal accents part, Or the faint purpose dawns within the heart! His fteady eye the mental birth perceives, Ere yet to us the new idea lives!

Knows what we fay, ere yet the words proceed, And, ere we form th' intention, marks the deed!

But Confcience, fair vicegerent-light within, Afferts its Author, and reftores the icene! Points out the beauty of the govern'd plan, "And vindicates the ways of God to man."

Then facred Mufe, by the vaft prospect fir'd, From heav'n defcended, as by Heav'n inspir'd; His all enlight'ning Omniprefence own, [known; Whence first thou feel'ft thy dwindling prefence His wide Omniscience, juftly gra:ful, fing, Whence thy weak fcience prunes its callow wing! And blefs th' eternal, all-informing foul, [whole Whole fight pervades, whofe knowledge fills the V. IMMUTABILITY.

As the Eternal and Omnifcient Mind,
By laws not limited, nor bounds confin'd;
Is always independent, always free,
Hence thines confefs'd Immutability!
Change, whether the fpontaneous child of will,
Or birth of force-is imperfection still.
But he, all-perfect, in himself contains
Pow'r felf-deriv'd, and from himself he reigns!
If, alter'd by constraint, we could fuppofe,
That God his fix'd stability should lofe;
How startles reafon at a thought so strange!
What pow'r can force Omnipotence to change?
If from his own divine productive thought,
Were the yet ftranger alteration wrought;
Could excellence fupreme new rays acquire?
Or ftrong perfection raife its glories higher?
Abfurd his high meridian brightnefs glows,
Never decreafes, never overflows!

Knows no addition, yields to no decay,
The blaze of incommunicable day!

Below, through different farms does matter
And life fubfifts from elemental change; (range,
Liquids condenfing shapes terreftrial wear,
Earth mounts in fire, and fire diffolves in air;
While we, enquiring phantoms of a day,
Inconftant as the fhadows we furvey!
With them, along time's rapid current pafs,
And hafte to mingle with the parent mais;
But Thou, Eternal Lord of life divine!
In youth immortal fhalt for ever shine!
No change fhall darken thy exalted name;
From everlafting ages ftill the fame!

If God, like man, his purpose could renew, His laws could vary, or his plans undo; Defponding faith would droop its cheerlefs wing, Religion deaden to a lifelefs thing! Where could we, rational, repofe our trust, But in a Pow'r immutable as juft? How judge of revelation's force divine, If truth unerring gave not the defign? Where, as in nature's fair according plan, All fimiles benevolent and good to man.

Plac'd in this narrow clouded spot below,
We darkly fee around, and darkly know!
Religion lends the salutary beam,

That guides our reafon thro' the dubious gleam;
Till founds the hour, when he who rules the fkics
Shall bid the curtain of Omniscience rife!
Shall diffipate the mifts that veil our fight,
And fhew his creatures-all his ways are right!

Then, when aftenifh'd nature feels its fate, And fetter'd time fhall know his lateft date! When earth fhall in the mighty blaze expire, Heav'n melt with heat, and worlds diffolve in fire!

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The univerfal fyftem fhrink away,
And ceafing orbs confefs th' almighty fway!
Immortal He, amidst the wreck fecure,
Shall fit exalted, permanently pure!

As in the Sacred Buth, fhall fhine the fame,
And from the ruin raife a fairer frame !

VI. OMNIPOTENCE.

Far hence, ye vifionary charming maids,
Ye fancied nymphs that haunt the Grecian fhades!
Your birth who from conceiving fiction drew,
Yourfelves producing phantoms as untrue;
But come, fuperior Mufe! divinely bright,
Daughter of heav'n, whofe offspring ftill is light;
Oh condefcend, celeftial facred guest !
To purge my fight, and animate my breaft,
While I prefume Omnipotence to trace,
And fing that Pow'r who peopled boundlefs fpace!
Thou prefent wert, when forth th Almighty
rode,

While Chaos trembled at the voice of God! [drew,
Thou faw'ft, when o'er th' immenfe his line he
When Nothing from his Word existence knew!
His Word, that wak'd to life the vaft profound,
While confcious light was kindled at the found!
Creation fair! furpris'd th'angelic eyes,
And fov'reign Wifdom faw that all was wife!
Him, fole almighty nature's book difplays,
Diftinct the page, and legible the rays!
Let the wild fccptic his attention throw
To the broad horizon, or carth below;
He finds thy foft impreffion touch his breaft,
He feels the God, and owns him unconfefs'd!
Should the fray pilgrim, tir'd of fands and fkies,
In Lybia's wafte behold a palace rife,
Would he believe the charm from atoms wrought?
Go, atheift, hence, and mend thy jufter thought!
What hand, Almighty Architect! but thinc,
Could give the model of this vaft defign?
What hand but thine adjust th' amazing whole?
And bid confenting fyftems beauteous roll!
What hand but thine fupply the folar light?
Ever beftowing, yet for ever bright!
What hand but thine the ftarry train array,
Or give the moon to fhed her borrow'd ray?
What hand but thine the azure convex fpread
What hand but thine compofe the ocean's bed?
To the vaft main the fandy barrier throw,
And with the feeble curb reftrain the foc
What hand but thine the wintry flood affuage,
Or flop the tempeft in its wildeft rage!

Thee infinite! what finite can explore?
Imagination finks beneath thy pow'r;
Thce could the ableft of thy creatures know,
Loft were thy Unity, for he were Thou!
Yet prefent to all fenfe thy pow'r remains,
Reveal'd in nature, Nature's Author reigns!
In vain would error from conviction fly,
Thou ev'ry where art prefent to the eye!
The fenfe how ftupid, and the fight how blind,
That fails this univerfal truth to find!

Go! all the fightle's realms of space furvey, Returning trace the Planetary Way! The fun, that in his central glory thines, While cv'ry planet round his orb inclines;

Then at our intermediate globe repofe,
And view yon lunar Satellite that glows!
Or caft along the azure vault thy eye,
When golden day enlightens all the sky;
Around, behold earth's variegated scene,
The mingling profpects, and the flow'ry green;
The mountain brow, the long-extended wood,
Or the rude rock that threatens o'er the flood!
And fay, are these the wild effects of chance?
Oh, ftrange effect of reas'ning ignorance!

Nor pow'r alone confefs'd in grandeur lies,
The glittering planet, or the painted skics!
Equal, the elephant's or emmet's dress,
The wifdom of Omnipotence confefs;
Equal, the cumbrous whale's enormous mass,
With the fmall infect in the crowded gras
The mite that gambols in its acid fea,
In fhape a porpus, though a fpeck to
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Ev'n the blue down the purple plum furre Jds,
A living world, thy failing fight confounds,
To him a peopled habitation fhows,
Where millions tafte the bounty God bestows!

Great Lord of life,whofe all-controuling might
Thro' wide creation beams divinely bright,
Nor only does thy pow'r in forming fhine,
But to annihilate, dread King! is thine.
Shouldit thou withdraw thy ftill-fupporting hand,
How languid nature would aftonish'd stand'
Thy frown the ancient realm of night restore,
And raife a blank-where fyftems finil'd before!
See in corruption, all-furprifing ftate,
How ftruggling life cludes the ftroke of fate;
Shock'd at the fcene, tho' fenfe averts its eye,
Nor ftops the wondrous procefs to defery;
Yet jufter thought the myftic change purfues,
And with delight Almighty Wisdom views!
The brute, the vegetable world furveys,
Sees life fubfifting ev'n from life's decays!
Mark there, felf-taught, the penfive reptile come,
Spin his thin throud, and living build his tomb!
With confcious care his former pleasures leave,
And drefs him for the bus'nefs of the grave!
Thence, pafs'd the fhort-liv'd change, renew'd
he fprings,

Admires the fkics, and tries his filken wings!
With airy flight the infect roves abroad,
And fcorns the meaner carth he lately trod!

Thee, potent, let deliver'd Ifracl praise,
And to thy name their grateful homage raife'
Thee, potent God! let Egypt's land declare,
That felt thy juftice, awfully fevere!
How did thy frown benight the thadow'd land!
Nature rever'd, how own thy high command!
When jarring elements their ufe forgot,
And the fun felt thy overcatiing blot!
When earth produc'd the peftilential brood,
And the foul ftream was crimfon'd into blood!
How deep the horrors of that awful night,
How ftrong the terror, and how wild the fright!
When o'er the land thy fword vindictive pats'd,
And men and infants breath'd at once their laft,
How did the arm thy favour'd tribes convey!
Thy light conducting point the patent way!
Obedient occan to their march divide
The watry wad diftinct on eiti er fide;

While thro' the deep the long proceffion led,
And faw the wonders of the oozy bed!

Nor long they march'd, till black'ning in the rear,
The vengeful tyrant and his hoft appear!
Plunge down the fteep, the waves thy nod obey,
And whelm the threat ning ftorm beneath the fea!
Nor yet thy pow'r thy chofen train forfook,
When thro' Arabia's fands their way they took;
By day thy cloud was prefent to the fight,
Thy fiery pillar led the march by night;
Thy hand amidst the waste their table spread,
With feather'd viands, and with heav'nly bread:
When the dry wilderness no ftreams fupplied,
Gufh'd from the yielding rock the vital tide!
What limits can Omnipotence contine?
What obftacles oppofe thy arm divine?
Since ftones and waves their fettled laws forego,
Sicce feas can harden, and fince rocks can flow!
On Sinai's top. the Mufe with ardent wing
The triumphs of Omnipotence would fing!
When o'er its airy brow thy cloud difplay'd,
Involv'd the nations in its awful shade!
When shrunk the earth from thy approaching
And the rock trembled to its rooted bafe; [face,
Yet where thy majefty divine appear'd,
Where thone thy glory, and thy voice was heard;
Ev'n in the blaze of that tremendous day,
Idolatry its impious rites could pay! [vade,
Oh thame to thought!-Thy facred throne in-
And brave the bolt that linger'd round its head!

VII. WISDOM.

O thou, who when th'Almighty form'd this All,
Upheld the feale, and weigh'd cach balanc'd ball;
And as his hand completed each defign,
Number'd the work, and fix'd the feal divine;
O Wisdom infinite! creation's foul,
Whofe rays diffufe new luftre o'er the whole,
What tongue fhall make thy charms celeftial
known?

What hand, fair Goddefs! paint thee but thy own?
What tho' in nature's univerfal ftore,
Appear the wonders of almighty pow'r!
Pow'r unattended terror would infpire,
Aw'd muft we gaze, and comfortless admire.
But when fair Wisdom joins in the defign,
The beauty of the whole refult's divine!

Hence life acknowledges its glorious caufe,
And matter owns its great difpofer's laws;
Hence in a thousand different models wrought,
Now fix'd to quict, now allied to thought;
Hence flow the forms and properties of things,
Hence rifes harmony, and order fprings,
Elfe had the mass a thapeless chaos lay,
Nor ever felt the dawn of Wisdom's day!
See, how affociate round their central fun,
Their faithful rings the circling planets run;
Still equi-diftant, never yet too near,
Exactly tracing their appointed sphere.
Mark how the moon our flying orb pursues,
While from the fun her monthly light renews;
Breathes her wide influence on the world below,
And bids the tides alternate ebb and flow.
View Low in course the conftant feafons rife,
D.form the earth, or beautify the fkies :

First, Spring advancing, with her flow'ry train; Next, Summer's hand, that spreads the fylvan fcene;

Then Autumn, with her yellow harven... crown'd;
And trembling Winter clofe the annual round.
The vegetable tribes obfervant trace,
From the tall cedar to the creeping grafs :
The chain of animated beings feale,
From the fmall reptile to th' enormous whale;
From the ftrong eagle ftooping thro' the skies,
To the low infect that efcapes thy eyes!
And fee, if fee thou canft, in ev'ry frame,
Eternal Wisdom fhine confefs'd the fanie.
As proper organs to the leaft affign'd,
As proper means to propagate the kind,
As just the structure, and as wife the plan,
As in this lord of all-debating man!

Hence, reas'ning creature, thy diftinction find,
Nor longer to the ways of Heav'n be blind.
Wisdom in outward beauty ftrikes the mind,
But outward beauty points a charm behind.
What gives the earth, the ambient air, or feas,
The plain, the river, or the wood to please?
Oh fay, in whom does beauty's felf refide,
The Beautifier, or the beautified?
There dwells the Godhead in the bright disguise,
Beyond the ken of all created eyes;
His works our love and our attention ftcal;
His works (furprifing thought!) the Maker veil;
Too weak our fight to pierce the radiant cloud,
Where Wisdom thines, in all her charms avow'd.
O gracious God, omnipotent and wife,
Unerring Lord, and Ruler of the fkies;
All-condefcending to my feeble heart,
One beam of thy celeftial light impart;
I feek not fordid wealth, or glitt'ring pow'r;
O grant me Wisdom-and I ask no more!
VIII. PROVIDENCE.

As from fome level country's fhelter'd ground, With towns replete, with green inclosures bound, Where the eye kept within the verdant maze, But gets a tranfient vifta as it ftrays; The pilgrim to fome rifing fummit tends, Whence opens all the fcene as he afcends: So providence the friendly height fupplies, Where all the charms of Deity furprife; Here Goodness, Power, and Wisdom all unite, And dazzling Glories whelm the ravish'd fight!

Almighty Caufe! 'tis thy preferving care, That keeps thy works for ever fresh and fair; The fun, from thy fuperior radiance bright, Eternal theds his delegated light; Lends to his fifter orb inferior day, And paints the filver moon's alternate ray : Thy hand the wafte of eating Time renews: Thou fhedd'ft the tepid morning's balmy dews; When raging winds the blacken'd deep deform, Thy fpirit rides commiffion'd in the ftorm; Bids at thy will the flack'ning tempeft ceafe, While the calm ocean fmooths its ruffled face; When lightnings thro' the air tremendous fly, Or the blue plague is loofen'd to deftroy, Thy hand directs, or turns aside the stroke; Thy word the fiend's commiffion can revoke;

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